Help, I will give brainliest!! Though slaves were treated brutally from the moment of capture, Europeans in the Old World and New managed to justify the enslaving of African people--to themselves, at least. What was one of
their main justifications for continuing the practice?
A. The plantation owners needed slaves to meet Europe's demand for sugar, rice, tobacco, and cotton.
B. The people who were against slavery didn't understand what African slaves were like.
C. The Portuguese were not going to stop buying slaves, so they might as well buy them.
D. The West Africans who made money from the sale of fellow Africans insisted the trade continue.

Correct answer is A. The plantation owners needed slaves to meet Europe's demand for sugar, rice, tobacco, and cotton.

Explanation:

A is correct answer as they needed to justify slavery by showing that it would be impossible to produce and export certain products from New World to Europe without the free labor of slaves.

B is not correct as racial theories back then were not developed like in 19th Century for example.

C is not correct as it has nothing to do with their reasons.

D is not correct although certain people in Africa did use this trade to strengthen their economy.

it was certainly a debatable decision, mainly because it was based primarily on political - and not on legal or social - views. since the congress at that time was led by members of the republican party, and the territory that the tribes wanted to turn into an exclusively indian state was predominantly democratic, the proposal (as expressed in the constitution) did not succeed, but the constitution itself proved to be of crucial importance in the creation of the state of oklahoma, and, most importantly, it guaranteed the involvement of representatives of the indian tribes in the government of the future joint state.  

as a member of congress, i would have voted to ratify the constitution, or at least to have it tabled. ignoring it was an interested and partial decision.